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FCE LIRRARI YASNA III. (CS!!ERSITY209
- EALTE CATHA of the holy Yazads, heavenly and earthly, and for the contentment of each man's soul.
5. And I desire to approach the Asnya with my praise, the lords of the ritual order, and the Håvani and Savanghi and Visya, the holy lords of the ritual order. And I desire to approach with the Yast of Mithra of the wide pastures, of the thousand ears, of the myriad eyes, the Yazad of the spoken name, and with him Râman Hvâstra.
6. And I desire to approach Rapithwina with my praise, the holy lord of the ritual order, and Frådat-fshu and Zantuma, and Righteousness the Best, and Ahura Mazda's Fire.
7. And I desire to approach Uzayêirina, and Frâdat-vira and Dahvyuma* with my praise, with that lofty Ahura Napát-apãm, and the waters Mazdamade,
8. And Aiwisrathrima, and Aibigaya, and Frâdatvispām-hugaiti, and Zarathustrôtema with the Yast of the Fravashis of the saints?, and of the women who have many sons, and the year long unchanged prosperity, and of Might, the well-shaped and stately, smiting victoriously, Ahura-made and of the Victorious Ascendency (which it secures).
9. And I desire to approach Ushahina, Beregya, and Nmânya with the Yast of Sraosha (Obedience) the sacred, the holy, who smites with the blow of victory, and makes the settlements advance, and with that of Rashnu, the most just, and Arståt
1 Yestî seems used of an especial Yast here, and subsequently, as genitives intrude among datives, the form possibly taking the place of the words 'for the propitiation of'; here Yast X may be referred to. 2 Yast XIII.
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